LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Evaluate the current indications, timing, and nutritional consequences of bowel lengthening and other surgical procedures for patients with intestinal failure
- Describe current basic and translational research alluding to the role of gut microbiota, bile acids and key gut signaling effecting nutrition outcomes in patients with intestinal failure
- Identify the key pathophysiological changes affecting nutritional absorption and status based on site and amount of bowel segment resected
FACULTY AND TOPICS
Nutrition Deficiencies in Patients with Short Bowel Syndrome
Cristina Cuerda, MD, PhD, Nutrition Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
Role of Medications in the Management of Chronic Intestinal Failure: Present and Future
Kishore Iyer, MBBS, FRCS, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Director of Adult and Pediatric Intestinal Rehabilitation & Transplantation; Surgical Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Surgical Techniques for Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Rehabilitation
David Mercer, MD, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS, Professor of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Future Of Intestinal Failure Management: Biomarkers, Microbiome, and Systemic Treatment
Ajay Jain, MD, DNB, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO
MODERATOR
Manpreet Mundi, MD, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN

This session includes pediatric content
Presented by the ASPEN Physician Engagement Committee